The Spring Hill thickknee chick continues to grow and now is a scale
replica of its parents. For the last week, it has been sitting on a
slope halfway between two footpaths, so people are regularly passing
within 10 metres of its position. Typically one of the parents sits
nearby, while the other sets up about 30 metres away. The chick
sitting parent was making an interesting cheeping call when I stopped
to say hello yesterday.
I took some photographs of the chick a couple of weeks ago, which I can
email to anyone who is interested. At that stage, the chick had oddly
shaped "shins" - like it was wearing cricket pads. It's lower "legs"
are still wider than its parents, one of its legs seems to be at an
angle and it doesn't seem to be walking too easily - so I suspect the
chick may be deformed. Is anyone in the group familiar with the leg
structure of juvenile thickknees?
Regards, Laurie
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